Canada Out of NATO! Dismantle
NATO!
No to NATO's Recruitment of Youth for Aggression and War
On April 29, NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg announced a new Young Professionals
Program (YPP) aimed at recruiting "the brightest
young minds in our Alliance" to join NATO to
"respond to the security challenges of today and
tomorrow." Only youth from NATO's 30 member
nations, including Canada, will be eligible to
apply.
According to the information provided by NATO,
recruitment will be open to qualified graduate
students with a year's work experience, who are 21
years old or older. Successful candidates will be
eligible to do three one-year placements in three
different NATO settings in "12 different areas of
work, including political affairs, cyber defence,
innovation and emerging technologies, marketing,
finance, law and engineering." Six civilian and
military bodies in Belgium, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands and the U.S. are taking applicants.
The aim is to groom future "leaders and
influencers" for NATO's war agenda.
 The YPP is part of
the ongoing campaign by NATO to present itself to
youth as some type of benign force that is
promoting human rights, freedom and democracy. But
youth are not buying it. The 2018 report of the
Standing Parliamentary Committee on National
Defence entitled Canada and NATO: An Alliance
Forged in Strength and Reliability, lamented
that there was little support or understanding
among young people for NATO or what it is doing.
It noted that 71 per cent of millennials are not
aware of NATO's important role, and that this lack
of knowledge hinders the government's support for
NATO. What is not understood or appreciated by
these warmongers is that youth of today in Canada
and abroad have taken up social responsibility for
the social and natural environment, and in their
hundreds of millions oppose imperialist war and
aggression.
To counter this spirit of the youth, the Canadian
government and NATO have developed an extensive
network -- with organizations such as the NATO
Association of Canada, the Munk School of Global
Affairs and Public Policy and the Canadian Centre
for the Responsibility to Protect at the
University of Toronto, and many others -- to
disinform youth about the true nature of NATO as
an instrument of war and imperialism. Job offers,
internships, training and networks with
influential academic, corporate and government
agencies and contacts are the "perks" offered.
TML Weekly condemns this latest
recruitment ploy by NATO to subvert our youth and
the youth of the world in the name of learning
skills and employment. NATO is an aggressive
military organization, one of the greatest threats
to the life and well-being of humanity and the
environment of our planet.
Not a Single Youth for
Imperialist War!
Get Canada Out of NATO!
Dismantle NATO!
Organize for an Anti-War Government!
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 17 - May 16, 2020
Article Link:
Canada Out of NATO! Dismantle
NATO!: No to NATO's Recruitment of Youth for Aggression and War
Website: www.cpcml.ca
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